Amanda Knox Trial Crime Quiz: Test Your Detective Skills

Amanda Knox was a 20-year-old college student from Seattle studying abroad in Italy when she was accused and convicted of killing her roommate Meredith Kercher, a student from England.

Prosecutors claimed that Kercher was killed during a drug-fueled night when a sex game went awry. Knox's then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito was tried with her and also found guilty. In a separate trial, Ivory Coast native Rudy Guede was also found guilty of murdering Kercher.

Knox and Sollecito maintained their innocence, however, and won an appeal this October that set them free.

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Bloody fingerprints were found in the apartment where Knox and Kercher lived. Police matched the crime scene prints with those belonging to Rudy Guede, an immigrant from Ivory Coast who lived in Perugia. How did they make the connection?

They had a criminal file on Guede, including prints from previous arrests.

They were included in his application for an identity card.

They lifted them from a glass of water he held during an interrogation.

They compared them to prints from his identical twin brother, who worked for the local police.

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[Skyflyer101]

23 minutes ago (10:34 AM)

The loony prosecutor had a weird imagination about motive. It's a wonder that the jury fell for it.

[the grange gorman]

05:39 PM on 05/23/2012

I think she is guilty and i think she will kill again.
RIP Meredith.

[ema123]

09:39 PM on 05/23/2012

No she didnt

[slowtono]

02:24 PM on 05/18/2012

Sadly enough all of this is presented evidence by the same individuals who declare the rye bread DNA was Meredith's DNA. What is truth and what is fabricated is so vague and doubtful that the court threw out everything as fabricated lies. There is no evidence only here say. Literally, 4 years in jail because the police say so!

[bendaltex]

12:14 PM on 05/09/2012

This is not a detective test - this is a memory test - you have to remember what you read from the trial.

[smevic]

05:41 PM on 04/28/2012

Wow...so she actully did a cartwheel and the splits? Sooooo weird!

[jayemjay]

03:27 PM on 05/23/2012

According to Knox she was at the police station voluntarily, waiting in a private waiting area for her boyfriend who was being questioned. She had been there for several hours when she did yoga positions to relieve stress. Her defenders claim that the police misinterpreted what she was doing and used it against her to imply that it was celebratory behavior.

[smevic]

11:44 PM on 05/23/2012

Ok...that makes much more sense...Thank you for clarifying for me. 

[warren2000k]

10:34 PM on 04/23/2012

SHE IS GULITY , ALL THREE OF THEM.
I really feel sorry for the young lady that they killed and her family. And to have one of the killers cry in court, run and jump on a plane. If there is a HELL, she will be in the front row with the rest of the killers.

Keith

[jdl51]

02:46 AM on 05/01/2012

Italian courts eventually found that it's pretty hard to convict someone without any relevant physical evidence.

[Mongoose king]

03:55 AM on 04/16/2012

She Did it!!! end of story

[sugarbabes]

08:45 PM on 04/03/2012

Please remember Knox was found guilty of fingering some innocent dude. She is still a convicted criminal (apparently appealing) in Italy. That conviction still stands. She needs to explain why, even after having translation and legal help, weeks after her original interview, she never said "ok, I made it up,.. I've no idea whether he did it". Unless she was there... and mistook him for someone else?

[Spuki]

09:54 PM on 03/30/2012

yeah

[Josie728]

12:40 PM on 03/07/2012

Amanda Knox was innocent and everyone knew it. This case simply illustrates the hatred that EU people have for Americans.

[sanfran55]

05:19 AM on 04/04/2012

Two Italian guys were convicted with her in the first trial - this Kercher murder case is not all about Amanda Knox. Her conviction of falsely accusing her totally innocent black boss was upheld by the appeal court, and she was sentenced, and served 3 years prison time. Nice employee.

[Josie728]

11:34 AM on 04/04/2012

The kind of employee I'd like to see in the White House.

[Joster GG]

08:54 PM on 04/13/2012

Nonsense

[Josie728]

12:38 PM on 03/07/2012

ok I just scored a 7 out of 7... but I don't see a badge. Also, how do I get to use a profile tag line like others do?

[GoldenLife]

06:43 AM on 03/30/2012

Go into your preferences and make sure the box in the second statement is checked, making sure you are not opted out of the badge rewards. For your micro bio- go to any topic, click on it and scroll down to where you can leave a comment.
Click on the word "edit" within the comment box and write whatever and the second bubble after where you wrote is empty, click on it to indicate that you are done.
Wait for approval and you should see it within 24 to 48 hours :)

[piceaglauca]

06:28 PM on 01/20/2012

Someone out there probably knows the answer. I did four quizzes and my number never went to four on the badge but keeps changing from 1 to 2 to 3 to 1 to 2 to 1 to 3 to 1 to 2 to1 to3 and so on.

Like what's up with that?

[Dean M Miller]

12:45 AM on 02/07/2012

idk, these badges confuse me

[UptheStairs]

09:31 PM on 02/19/2012

My badges don't even show up. It's like I'm the only on here with no badges.

[Dakotadude]

11:53 AM on 03/03/2012

i see ur badgedes

[Willie Qwit]

06:07 PM on 03/04/2012

I see three badges for you. Each has the number 1 on it.

[rek33043]

06:22 PM on 01/12/2012

innocent

[mother10]

08:33 PM on 01/06/2012

Amanda, I really hope you are innocent

[eclipse535]

02:33 PM on 01/12/2012

Of course she's innocent.There's never been any doubt about that.

[piceaglauca]

10:04 AM on 01/21/2012

Did you do two quizzes, more or less? Does your number keep changing? I did four and it goes up and down. What's up with that?

[UptheStairs]

09:32 PM on 02/19/2012

Oh? No doubt? Maybe her parents don't doubt her innocence, but I do. There are too many unanswered question.

[poeticjustice4all]

12:56 PM on 12/31/2011

"One thing that could have happened is that I smoked marijuana that night, and fell asleep at my boyfriend’s house. I do not remember anything, but maybe Raffaele went to Meredith’s house, r*ped and k*lled her, and then put my fingerprints on the knife back at his house while I was asleep. But I do not know why."

-- Amanda Knox

[kcmookie]

01:54 PM on 01/06/2012

Imagine having to come up with some sort of plausible explanation for things that simply don't make sense to you....... Oh wait, the police lied? So there is no proof that Rafaelle r*ped Meredith, and no proof that the cooking knife with my prints on it was used in the crime?

Well now that makes more sense. My prints are on the knife from having used it in Rafaelle's kitchen. Why did the police fabricate a story and than prop up a false confession?

More to the point, why do you pretend to be too ignorant to see and understand that?

[poeticjustice4all]

03:19 PM on 01/06/2012

"I cried, but I was always hugged by Raffaele. First he gave me his jacket, then he was cuddling with me because I was shaking. I didn't know what to think. I was shocked."